The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We must listen to poets.
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